Wes, Eneasz, and David keep the rationalist community informed about what’s going on outside of the rationalist community
News discussed:
There was a Biden vs Lettuce! The Lettuce won.
CrowdStrike Falcon is endpoint monitoring software. (doesn’t just protect from malicious code, also tracks assets). Reminder: Any time you have auto-update enabled for anything, you have installed a free backdoor
The UBI experiment actually showed a lot of major upsides! Increased entrepreneurship, people held out longer for better jobs (which contributed to the lower employment number!), young people got more edu and single parents did more child raising, people were able to leave abusive relationships. Looking at naive averages isn’t that useful. (also AskWhoCastsAI is one of my fav podcasts)
The World Central Kitchen fuckup has been investigated. “An Australian review into the deaths said the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) decided to launch missiles at the convoy after mistakenly believing it was being hijacked by Hamas”
Leaked Zoom recording of white house staff & DNC discussing how to best censor reports of Biden’s mental decline. Most interesting part is how polite the threats are. Stuff like ‘you say you’re reducing disinformation, but it looks like this disinformation about Biden’s decline is still up on facebook. I’m not sure that’s what reduction looks like’. Feels like Reality Is Becoming Impossible To Satirize
US recognizes challenger as winner as riots continue in Venezuela
Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh killed by detonating a bomb planted in advance in his bedroom at the Iranian government official residence
Iran vows major counterstrikes on the 12th
Hamas names a top architect of the Oct 7 terror rampage as new leader
Hezbollah top commander Fouad Shukur (behind recent rocket attack in Isreal) killed by airstrike in Lebanon
top Hamas military leader Mohammed Deif killed in Gaza
Days of riots in Britain. Backlash against immigration and perceived rise in crime. Best way to fix that is always beating up innocent minorities and destroying local businesses.
Twitter files antitrust lawsuit against GARM. Sounds like BS lawsuit, but GARM does legit threaten corps that advertise on media outlets that they want to destroy with standard “shame if your store burned down” mob tactics. Much like patent trolls what they do is legal but should get them jail/confiscation/blinding.
Russian prisoner exchange. The tween & teen kids of a spy couple discover they’re Russian on the flight over to Russia.
In Bangladesh a government job quota system favoring the in-group sparked weeks of deadly riots (after over a decade of ratcheting authoritarianism and economic issues). Finally the prime minister fled the country after protestors stormed her residence, the president dissolved parliament, and the military is forming an interim govt.
BAGUETTE NEWS! Frenchman’s Giant Baguette is his undoing at the pole vault. (is offered $250k porn deal??) Joins acapella group.
More top people leave Open AI - cofounder John Schulman leaves to join Anthropic, president Greg Brockman takes extended leave of absence, a VP resigns.
accused 9/11 mastermind and two others gitmo got a plea deal, next day it was rescinded
Happy News!
“bridge editing” papers published in Nature promise more precise gene editing than CRISPR with fewer errors and disruptions.
Nanofiber molecules cause human cartilage to begin regeneration process, which humans can’t do in adulthood. Could lead to actual joint repair/regrowth. So far only on cell samples, not in humans.
Texas Heart Institute implants the first Total Artificial Heart. Made of titanium and don’t require anti-rejection medications. Uses rotary blood pump with a single moving part that utilizes a magnetically levitated rotor to greatly reduce friction and wear. Increases blood flow with demand to up to 12L/minute, allowing patients to exercise! Was only a place-holder for this surgery, but meant for long-term eventually. 3500 people on heart transplant list ATM.
Australia begins campaign to eradicate peanut allergy
Troop Deployment
Eneasz - Kamala Harris is The Mask That Smiles
Wes - Don’t be a Baby About the Election
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